Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi end his 8-day long fast

New Delhi,
Sat, 15 Dec 2012NI Wire

Assem Trivedi, who recently came in the limelight when he had been arrested by Delhi police over the charges of sedition
and violating a cyber law, has ended his 8-day long fast on the request of Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal.

Arvind requested Aseem to end his fast and asked him root out the government instead.

According to reports, Trivedi was holding fast since Dec 08 at the Jantar Mantar demanding to immediate scrapping of the
section 66(A) of IT law.

Trivedi was arrested in September under sedition charges as well as section 66 (A) of the IT Act for his controversial
cartoons.

He ended his fast after Kejriwal requested him to end not to waste his life and but work towards "uprooting this
government".

"The government has turned a deaf ear towards people, only way left is to shunt it out. The youngsters are fighting for
their freedom of expression. Section 66(A) of the IT Act is totally unconstitutional and youth have been wrongly arrested
under this law," Kejriwal said.

Insisting that there was a need to repeal the provision, Trivedi said: "We are following the Gandhian way of revolt but
nobody paid heed to us. We don't need such representatives who don't listen to people.

"Through Save our voice, campaign against internet censorship, we tried to put forth our point in front of the government
but they didn't listen to us. The country needs a political option."

There was an uproar over the Act recently when two girls in Thane near Mumbai were arrested for a Facebook post
questioning virtual shut down in the city following Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackrey's death. The girls were released later.

Few days after that, a 19-year-old boy was questioned by the police in Palghar of Maharashtra over an alleged Facebook
post against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray.